2004 Ford Crown Victoria Front & Rear 4 Piece Power Power Window Motor & Regulator Assembly Set TRQ WRA51635

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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a rear window regulator on this 2000 Grand Marquis. The same as any '98 to '02 Grand Marquis, pretty similar for any 1998 to 2011 Grand Marquis as well as the Ford Crown Victoria. There may be some differences in how you remove the door panel between vehicles and years. The tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, a Philips screwdriver, and the original regulators are riveted in, so you'll need a hammer and punch and a drill with a 3/8 drill bit to drill out the rivets, 11mm socket with ratchets, needle nose pliers. To reinstall, if you don't have a rivet and rivet guns you'll need five 1/2 long small bolts with lock nuts and two long small bolts with lock nuts.

You will use a flat blade screwdriver and come on in here, carefully pry this up, right up here, and you pull it right out. Then you'll need a Phillips screwdriver, just carefully remove these two Phillips screws. Use your flat blade screwdriver and go right in here. You can see a tab on the side, pry up, and pull down on one side. Turn it over, same thing right over here pry up. Now you want to use your flat blade screwdriver and pry down on the top of this bezel and then it comes out.

Then there's two covers here, just pry up the bottom. Use the bottom, that way if you accidentally scratch something you're less likely to show. Now there are four screws. Phillips screws are removed here, here, and then one down here. Just speed up the film here as I remove those four Phillips screws. Once those screws are out, lift up on your panel. You have to kind of shake it a little bit to get it out, and then pull your switch through. Now it's off.

To remove your door handle there's a Phillips screw right in here. Remove that screw and slide your handle forward and pull it out. Then when you look behind, you'll see that its attached to a rod and what you want to do is kind of pull it down and then forward and off the rod like that.

The regulators in these are actually activated by a cable. Mine is actually working fine. When your regulator breaks you'll usually hear when you press the switch you usually hear the motor try to work and you'll either hear a crunching, or grinding, or clicking noise. Or youll just hear the motor trying to work and nothing happening. Also when your regulator breaks you can usually take your window, grab it by hand and move it up and down. Mine, like I said, is not broken so I'm just showing you on this car.

What you'll want to do is the regulator is attached through the door with a series of rivets. There's one, two, and three here that hold the motor bracket on. Then there are two down here near the bottom of the door. That holds the bottom of the rail. Then there are two nuts, 11mm, that hold the regulator there. Then there are two rivets that hold the window regulator to the window. One there and one through there where you took the door handle out. Again, what you'll need to do is if your regulator is broken is just lift up and support the window in this position so you can get to those rivets.

To remove the rivets, you'll want a punch like this with a pointed tip and the first thing you want to do is knock the center of the rivets out. I'm putting the punch right on there, holding it against it. And, like I said, that knocks the center of the rivet out. I do that to the other four. And speed up here as I knock it out for the two that hold the motor and then the two down below which you can't quite see me do. Here I'm using my hammer and punch to punch out the rivets that hold the regulator to the window. As you can see, I'm hitting them quite hard. Make sure you hit the center of the rivet, it will come out and you don't really have to worry about breaking your window. Your windows can actually take quite an indirect hit.

Now take a drill with a 3/8 bit on it, and you want to carefully drill this through the rivet. The rivet is soft aluminum, so it should come out pretty easy. If you do it without pushing too hard, you usually can do it without the rivet spinning. Okay, you can see the head comes right off and so well do that for the rest of them. I'll fast-forward here again as I drill out the rest of the rivets. One thing you'll see me do is you'll see me bring a screwdriver in. Sometimes when the rivets start to spin what you can do is, obviously they're going to spin clockwise with the drill, so what you can do is take a screwdriver, put it in, pry it underneath and then pry up the right side so it kind of holds the rivet in place as you drill. Just be careful that when you do this that you don't slip and get your hand too close to the drill or anything like that.

These ones in the window you want to use your punch and drive out the rest of the rivet. Use an 11mm socket with a ratchet extension and remove this bolt here. Then this bolt up here. Additionally you'll want to take your screwdriver and pry up and pull this weather strip off. Then take your window, let's see here, you push the bottom of the window out. That allows it to slide down by the regulator. You can take this piece of trim, pull it down some, actually you can pull it right off. Now you're going to take your window here and this secondary window and push it down. Pull this window up and out of your way a little bit. Reach down in here and feed the bigger window right out.

The two 11mm nuts we want to remove those. Right here is where your power window motor plugs in. There's just a little tab. I'm pushing back the tab with my thumb, pulling up on the connector, pull this little safety pin right through and now these rivets are probably still holding it a little bit. The motors right here. Just kind of put a screwdriver in and pry out a little bit. You'll pop the rivets. And fast-forward as I just use my screwdriver, pop the rest of those rivets out. You may have to use your hammer and punch to knock them out as well. Then you're motor and regulator basically are free. You just kind of force the two top studs out and then you just kind of have to manipulate your regulator and motor and pull them right out through the hole in the door.

My original regulator is in fine shape. Normally what happens on these regulators is the cable breaks but this one's fine so I am going to reinstall it. Regulators from 1A Auto they come, they will install just like the original if they have the correct connector for the motor and everything.

For reinstallation, put the bottom of the regulator in first. Feed the motor in. Now you want to come up here and get these two studs in first. Look right down through here. Those studs are in. Start these nuts on. Now just fast-forward as I just get those two 11mm nuts on that hold the top of the window regulator rail. Just kind of hand tighten them. Now I'm using some smaller bolts and lock nuts. Obviously, if you have a rivet gun and rivets, you can rivet this in place. Before I do that I just kind of finding my parts here, make sure it's not caught up anywhere. Plug it in. Okay, I'm speeding up, and basically, in layman's terms, what I'm doing here is I'm using small bolts with lock nuts to replace the rivets, because most people don't have access to a rivet gun and rivets. Basically, we use small bolts with the lock nuts on the back. Put them on and then use a wrench and socket and ratchet, or two wrenches to tighten them up. I'm doing that for the three bolts that hold the window motor, and the bottom, and then the two bolts that hold the bottom of the regulator rail.

Lastly, as far as the regulator and motor installing into the door, just tighten up the two 11mm nuts that hold the top of the rail. Before you feed your window in make sure that the old rivets are all the way out. Feed the window in. Put this bolt back in here for the front channel. Ill speed it up as we tighten that up. We just put the window down in and put the bolt back in this channel and tightened it up. I kind of have to speed through some of this here or else this videos going to be longer than the YouTube 20 minutes.

You basically feed your rear quarter window back down in. Actually, first push your window forward into the front channel, then feed your rear quarter window back down in. Then lift while you're kind of paying attention to the front and rear of the window, making sure they do in the channels. Lift the window up into place and eventually you'll get it into the channels. You can lift it all the way up. Sorry I didn't film this very well, but you'll want to put the bolt back in to that rear channel and tighten it up. And just all the while just make sure that your window is in the channels correctly and will move up and down freely.

Our regulator is down in place. Just use an inch-long bolt and a lock nut for the other side. And I'll speed up here as we tighten up the bolt and lock nut with a wrench and socket ratchet. Then, obviously repeat for the other attachment point for the regulator. You've got the key on and it works good. Remember to put the trim back around the upper part of the window. It can be a little difficult. You just kind of put it on top the pinch weld and you might have to work it around to get it in correctly. Then, as well, make sure you put the weather strip back in place.

And I'll speed up here as I put the inside door handle back on. Remember to kind of twist it onto the rod. Push it in, slide it back, and then use the screw and screwdriver and attach it. Then carefully put the water shield back in place.

Okay, put the shield back around the handle. Make sure you pull the wiring harness through and stick the shield back on as well as you can. Some extra tape or something might be in order if it doesn't stick on there really well. Put the panel back in. Make sure you feed your switch through the hole in the insulation here. The clips just go right into the door. In place, make sure that your lock button goes up and in. Push it against the door and down and on. Then, pull your switch through. Okay, and I'll speed up again as I put the 4 screws back in. The 2 longest screws are the ones that go way down in the bottom and right under the door handle and then the kind of short pan head screws go into the door pole. Fast forward again as I put the Phillips' screws in and tighten them up for the switch.

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Hi. I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com.

In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and replace the driver's front window regulator on this 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis. Obviously, it's the same as the passenger's side. This is also similar for the Ford Crown Victoria, although on some of yours, removing the door panel may be a little bit different of a procedure. Tools you'll need are flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, a hammer and punch, a drill with a 3/8" drill bit, 11mm socket with ratchet and needle nose pliers.

Start with a flat blade screwdriver, carefully pry up your switch panel here in the front. Move back and forth and pull up your hands, just shake that back and forth. It comes up and out. Then, again, with your flat blade screwdriver, pry up here and take off your mirror switch. Then, move these connectors and there's little tabs that lock, they lock them on. Pry it from the other side. Pry out down here. Pull up on this connector and get it started. Pull up with a finger on this one. Place it there. Just carefully go in and these little cap just pry that one out going from the bottom so if you scrape something its more difficult to see.

Then, right here, put your screwdriver in up top and you see a little space where the screwdriver goes, and pry that bezel out. Now, there's five Phillips screw to remove; one there, one there, there, one right there and then one right down here at the bottom. Now, I'm going to fast forward as I remove those five screws. They're obviously easy to remove because they're just screws but they try to stay in there. As you're pulling them out or as you're turning them counterclockwise, you may have to reach in with your fingernail and pull them out. Otherwise, just make sure if you can't get out of the panel, just make sure that you need to pull the panel off and if you drop them, you just recover them before you go to the next step.

Once you have those screws out, just lift up on the panel and bring it out. On the back side, there are two connectors. Pull back on a couple of tabs here, disconnect that. Then, pull up on this tab and disconnect that and your door panel is off. I'm going to fast forward here as I do some additional prep. You to remove the speaker, which is just three Phillip screws. Then you pull the speaker out and there's connector at the back. You just push the tab and disconnect it. Then, there's also a small junction block down below that you just hold down with one Phillip screw, remove that and let that hang down. Then slowly pull your water shield down. Be careful not to rip or tear it. You just have to pull it out from the door handle and back and out of your way.

Now, what you want to do is you want to use the punch with a nice point on it and you want to knock out the center of these rivets. Just fast forward as I do that last one, and then there's two down lower on the door that you want to remove as well. They have cable activated regulators and actually, mine works fine. What I'm going to do is when your regulator goes, your cable will basically snap and when you press the button, you'll hear the motor working and sometimes you'll hear a grinding noise or hear the motor work but the window doesn't move.

I'm just going to turn my key on and we'll see the regulator works fine so I'm going to move it up. If you had a broken window regulator, you'll be able to move it by hand at this point. That's what you want to do, you want to move it by hand to the same position I'm moving mine, too. What you're going to want to do is you're going to want to basically move windows about this level and pull your inside door handle off. Taking the screw out, move the handle forward, pull it out and then just pull it up, and twist it forward. What you'll see is you have two more rivets holding the window. You'll want to, just like you did with the other, you want to use the same process and knock the centers of the rivets out and then drill them out.

Now, we'll use a 3/8" drill bit. I'm very light going to drill these rivets. They're nice, soft aluminum so they should come apart pretty easy. You don't want to push hard because you don't want them to spin around. The rivets, you have to drill out. You see, I'm doing the two for the window to the regulator, as well as the other ones that hold the regulator to the door. Now, your window motor is connected right here. Pull down on this tab here and out. You want to take this inner rubber strip, pry it up and off. Then take your punch again and just knock out the rest of the rivets from the window. Now, what I'm going to do is once you get it loose from your regulator, let it down, let your window down. Let the front go down in, just pull this up and out. It wants to get caught on the regulator. Slide out your window up and out. Now, at the top, there's two 11mm bolts, use the socket and ratchet. I'll just speed it up here as I remove those two 11 mm nuts. Get those bolts out. Pull your regulator back out and bring the whole assembly right out through here.

Okay, new regulator from 1A Auto, put it right in. Put right in and reach through. And up and in. And up here just kind of lead them in. And hang these two studs. They come right through here. I'm going to take these nuts. I'll fast forward here as I just take those nuts and start them on with my fingers and get them finger-tight to hold things in place. Okay, now, we're going to take some hardware store bought little screws, a washer and a nut. At the bottom, put those in, washer on the back side and locking style nuts so that they are less likely to come apart. I'm going to fast forward. What I'm doing quite simply is rather than using rivets to put it back together, I'm just using nuts and bolts that I sourced at the hardware store. Obviously, if you had rivets and a rivet gun, you could go that route. Most times, this is easier for people though. Before we tighten it up, pull our lead around and pull it through, plug it right in. I'm using a wrench on the back side, and put a screwdriver on the front side and tighten these up.

Okay. Just like before, just going to speed it up here as I go over all the bolts that hold both the rail to the door, as well as the window motor to the door and make sure they're nice and tight. Additionally I use my 11 mm socket and ratchet and tighten up the two top nuts that hold the top of the rail to the door. Now, take your glass. Make sure they're clear of old rivets here. Now, take your glass, make sure that there's no remnant of the old rivets. Okay, now, take your glass and you can see there's kind of a remnant of the old rivet in there. Use your screwdriver and believe it or not, it's actually very difficult to break this glass. Now, use pliers or screwdriver and make you pry out or remove any of those remaining parts of the rivets from the window.

Now, put the glass in nose first, I insert it. Make sure you get on the outside of the regulator. Just twist it up in place. Looking right through the speaker hole here, make sure that the nose fits into the channel correctly. Back here, make sure that the rear of the window goes into the channel correctly. Slide it right up into place so you can put bolts right through here. Now, what you're going to need is a couple of longer bolts, again, right from the hardware store and install those right through the regulator and into the window. Again, I'm going to speed it up here. Like I said, I just put the bolts right through the regulator and into the window and then the washers and lock nuts on the back side and tighten them up nice and firm.

Now with everything hooked up we can turn our key on. Quick test, make sure it works good. Speed it up here as we disconnect our switch panel and take that upper weather strip and press it back down onto place. After putting our inner door handle in and sliding it back into place, put the screw back in and then put your water shield back up in place. Remember to feed the wiring harnesses through. We'll keep the speed going here as we put the speaker back in place and the small junction block and use the screws to secure them. You'd see I did use a little bit of a painter's tape just to help hold the front of the water shield on.

Okay. Your door panel is designed with hooks on the bottom. You want to lift up your harnesses and you can see that the bottom hooks clip on. You can put your trunk opener, put it right in, plug this upper plug in. Lift your door panel up, main door panel up and make sure these parts are coming up through and make sure your door's lock comes through. Lift the panel up a little bit and then it just slide right down on. I'm going to speed it up here as I put the five Phillip screws back in. The long ones go through the panel. The shorter ones go through that door pole.

Just a little tip: if you have trouble getting one in, you might want to take the panel back off and on some of them, there's clips on behind and sometimes, those clips can get shifted, which makes it hard to get those screws in, but they should pretty much go right in. Just reconnect our harness leads, and turn your switch. Then just work it right down in, push it against the door and down in. Just let it right in, locks in place and these go back into place.

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